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Early reflections on a collaborative research project about the safety of rainbow ākonga on Te Pūkenga campuses
(ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga., 2023-11-29)This paper reports on the experiences of a research team designing and beginning to implement a research project exploring how safe and inclusive the various campuses of Te Pūkenga are for Rainbow ākonga (students). As ... -
Stocktake of clinical placements and preparation for clinical experience: A national perspective of practice employed in the polytechnic sector
(2023-05)Funding: MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship/Te Apārangi Royal Society A collaborative research project between 13 New Zealand polytechnic institutes offering nursing programmes INTRODUCTION Nursing curricula need to ... -
Student nurse perceptions of caring for older adults: How incidental project findings identified ageist attitudes and opportunities to create, innovate and energise pre-registration nursing curricula
(2023-06-07)Funding: MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship/Te Apārangi Royal Society A collaborative research project between 13 New Zealand polytechnic institutes offering nursing programmes New Zealand's population Future healthcare ... -
Inclusive assessments in language teaching: Current approaches and future possibilities
(2023-09-30)In the field of language education, inclusive assessments are pivotal yet often overlooked. This presentation aims to stimulate critical dialogue about our attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding inclusivity in language ... -
Future nursing workforce: Creating, innovating, and energising undergraduate curriculum content through stakeholder collaboration
(2023-06-07)Funding: MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship/Te Apārangi Royal Society A collaborative research project between 13 New Zealand polytechnic institutes offering nursing programmes New Zealand's population Future healthcare ... -
Nurturing Pasifika learners through effective pedagogy: A case study of a program at Unitec/Te Pūkenga New Zealand
(2023-06-29)The presentation showcases the successful pedagogical approaches that have been implemented in the programme by using Pacific models of learning, collaborative learning, and experiential learning combined with strong ... -
Turn and face the strange, ch-ch-changes: Maintaining the value of social work education and student centered learning
(2023-09-08)Ko wai au? Reflections on change Changes on our horizons- reflections Wider changes education Te Pukenga and Te Ata Mahina Challenges facing social work students What has worked well? Strategies to face the strange A ... -
Making the transformation in academic writing: Some strategies for students from Asian background
(2021-07-07)The notion of the “threshold concept” (Meyer & Land, 2003) can be used to examine strategies for inducting Asian students into Western academic writing practices. A threshold concept is integral to a given discipline; it ... -
Survive and thrive: A peer mentoring scheme to enable students' engagement in their learning during the unprecedented times of Covid 19
(2022-12-06)PASS: Peer Assisted Study Sessions Computing students AutoCad class Electrical lab PASS online Feedback from students who participated in PASS PASS leaders' feedback Feedback from academic staff -
A peer mentoring programme supporting learners from the School of Civil Engineering
(2023-02-08)PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) is a peer mentoring programme at Unitec that effectively supports first-year Civil Engineering students. PASS leaders play an important role in helping them connect to new learning ... -
Reviving face-to-face learning: Using interactive activities to engage students in academic writing
(2022-11-24)This presentation is about how a combination of face-to-face and online interactive activities can benefit students' engagement, participation and interaction in learning how to write a technical report in an embedded ... -
A holistic approach to enhancing students’ academic writing
(2022-11-30)Strategies to provide holistic approach to academic writing Develop positive relationships - building relationships Showing empathy Being flexible Understanding cultural and learning differences Structure of writing ... -
Introducing Multimodal Objective Structural Practical Exam (OSPE) to assess anatomy competency, and to improve student’s ability in medical imaging practice
(2022-12)INTRODUCTION An essential part of medical imaging education is based on learning the student’s skills needed in their practice. Teaching anatomy to medical imaging students focuses on building a three-dimensional picture ... -
Industry perspectives on work placement for learners and using it to move forward
(2022-07-06)Key purposes of the survey To encourage stake holders to provide input To increase consistency across the country in communication To determine required/preferred support of placements going forward To investigate ... -
Safely negotiating the intersection: Managing the personal and professional dimensions of life in social work education
(2022-11-10)Social workers and social work students come with their own personal lives and histories, that have grown in diverse social and cultural contexts. Students come into social work education with their own experiences of ... -
Unboxing literacies of young children
(2022-11-16)Show & Tell One item to share: •an object, a quote, a poem, an illustration or whatever •needs only to be meaningful to the teller and carry a story the teller wants to tell The cheese house -
ITE curriculum, teachers and parents: Experience of inclusion for neurodiverse tamariki
(2022-11-14)RESEARCH QUESTIONS • What knowledge can parents share on neurodiverse tamariki that would benefit ITE programmes? • What knowledge can kaiako share on neurodiverse tamariki that would benefit ITE programmes? • What ... -
Academics-industry collaboration in programme development and delivery: A case study analysis
(2022-10)This paper discusses the collaboration between academics and industry during the development and delivery of an academic programme. The New Zealand Diploma in Cybersecurity offered at Unitec New Zealand Limited is used as ... -
The question concerning technology in Northeast India
(2022-05-21)In Northeast India, an extremely rich cultural and historical setting, the challenge of the technological evolution of education makes it crucial to revisit the historical question concerning technology, as it was posed ...